The new G.I. Joe movie comes out on Friday. I haven’t seen a preview, but I’ve watched a couple of the trailers, leafed through some of the book and comic tie-ins at the store, and checked out the website.
I keep wondering: Is G.I. Joe still an American? He used to be, back in the day. Maybe the movie will make clear that the 21st-century version is also a “real American hero,” as the tagline once put it. But this is far from obvious. The old logo was red, white, and blue. Now the dominant image is black. Nobody wears green Army uniforms. Instead, the good guys appear to put on silver-plated robocop armor. Joe and his friends look like celluloid heroes without a country.
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Where do I line up to smack John J. Miller? Again making a statement that black is somehow un-American. I know, maybe making that leap seems a little conspiracy theorist of me, but in the light of Lou Dobbs not shutting up about Obama’s birth certificate I’m standing by it.
I watched John J. Miller on MSNBC a few minutes ago and his argument continued when he said Hollywood hasn’t produced any movies where American Soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan feature as heroic figures. It’s like having an illiterate write the book reviews. Good stuff.
